I don't see how The Last Samurai fits into that list of movies. It's not set in the west, it doesn't mention the west and it doesn't mention Christianity at all. I thought it was a great movie about the end of the samurai culture in Japan and nothing more nor less.
Me too. I resisted watching it because of Tom Cruise. It was however a good movie that described the problems people have with change.
That same phenomenon is responsible for the uprising of Islamic fanatics. They resist the change occuring in their world.